Babe: Pig In The City: Critic Reviews

Brilliant!

BABE has all but lost its bearings.

Darkly funny!

The new saga basks in imaginative charm!

More magical than the original!

It's George Miller's masterpiece, maybe even the best commercial film of 1998.

Even more fun than the original!

A sequel that lacks the quiet beauty and subtlety of the original!

Darker than the original, not for young kids.

This is the stuff of Dickens, told on the scale of Blade Runner and Brazil, with the madcap spirit of The Great Muppet Caper.

An amazing accomplishment. George Miller brings the same approach to this sequel as he did with the Mad Max trilogy: Don't re-make, re-invent. A work of genius.

...Paints a bleak picture of humanity. Not to mention, shall we say, animality.

Despite its G-rating, the movie includes numerous scenes of animals in peril, including a pit bull that nearly hangs himself, a crippled dog that gets thrown into a wall and a goldfish that almost suffocates... Happy holidays, kids!

Babe needed a sequel as much as Citizen Kane or Casablanca.

Would anyone go for a sequel to The Wizard of Oz that catapulted Dorothy and Toto into the world of Once Were Warriors or Escape From New York?

Where Babe was warm, gentle, and cuddly, Pig in the City is fast paced and antic.

(Imagine the mouse chorus) "A Disappointing Nightmare"

Miller's confident, technically astounding direction produces challenging ideas at every turn.